Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century
by Robert Routledge
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Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Steam Engines
- Iron
- Tools
- Railways
- Steam Navigation
- Ships of War
- Fire-Arms
- Torpedoes
- Ship Canals
- Iron Bridges
- Printing Machines
- Hydraulic Power
- Pneumatic Dispatch
- Rock Boring
- Light
- The Spectroscope
- Roentgen’s X Rays
- Sight
- Electricity
- The Electric Telegraph
- Lighthouses
- Photography
- Printing Processes
- Recording Instruments
- Aquaria
- Gold and Diamonds
- New Metals
- Indian-Rubber and Gutta-Percha
- Anæsthetics
- Explosives
- Mineral Combustibles
- Coal-Gas
- Coal-Tar Colours
- The Greatest Discovery of the Age
- Notes A and B.